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Ben Wanger
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american-israeli professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent”. Today it says “american-israeli former professional baseball pitcher”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “American-Israeli baseball player Baseball player”. It now reads “American-Israeli baseball player”.
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Ben Wanger ( ; born April 7, 1997) is an American-Israeli professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent.1 He also plays for Team Israel . Playing for the Yale Bulldogs he led the Ivy League in RBIs in 2017 and was First-Team All-Ivy, and led the League in ERA in 2018 and was First-Team All-Ivy as a relief pitcher . He pitched and played first base for Team Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the summer of 2021.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american-israeli professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent”. Today it says “american-israeli former professional baseball pitcher”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “American-Israeli baseball player Baseball player”. It now reads “American-Israeli baseball player”. Read the current article and compare.
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american-israeli professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent
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american-israeli former professional baseball pitcher
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